The national flag can be flown by all Danish pleasure craft without
special permission.

The yacht flag (the split flag) is the Danish naval flag with the letters
YF in gold in the upper square. The colour is dark red with a white cross.
According to the proclamation of the Ministry of State's on 11 October 1957 on
the use of yacht flags, this yacht flag can be used by such Danish fulldeck
craft (halfdeck craft) as are intended for pleasure use only. ... According to
the Ministry of Justice (1979), the yacht flag can not be used on land.

Several Royal resolutions (replace by appropriate type of declaration)
from 1873-1899 give specific sail clubs and row clubs permission to display
special distinguishing marks in the upper square of the flag.

If we can trust
their thoroughness, and they are even more thorough than I'm quoting, then I'd
say the permission to use special distinguishing marks is an additional
permission, and doesn't take away the existing permission to use either a
yacht ensign or a national flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 June 2001

The state flag with yellow letters 'Y.F.' in the canton of the red canton.
Y.F. stand for Yacht Union in Danish. This is the "generic" Yacht Ensign, to be
used by yacht clubs that are not granted any other special flag. This is also a
civil flag, so bright red field seems to be in order.Željko Heimer, 26 May 2004

On a visit to Denmark I saw quite a
lot of Yacht Flags. Variations include, the size of the Y.F., from so modest its
height is not a quarter of the height of the first quarter to so bold a spanning
rectangle would take more than half the surface of that first quarter, letters
in gold-paint and letters in bright yellow, letters and dots outlined in black
(!), and flag colours from bright red to almost violet. Unfortunately I didn't
manage to speak to owners of the latter colour of flag to ask whether it was
meant to be Navy-red, and if so, why. Unfortunate, since these were the only
flags that were noticeably darker.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

The Danish yacht-flag
(the only splitflag allowed to be flown by civilians) should have the color code
U193 (called Royal-red or Commander-red in Denmark) apart from the national flag
'Dannebrog', which is U185 (a lighter red). Kenneth Ley Milling, 24 July 2006

"Y.F." and three gold stars.
Royal resolutions of 28 February 1873 and 25. July 1891.

The state ensign
with yellow emblem in the canton consisting of the letters "Y.F." and three
five-pointed stars in rising diagonal.Željko Heimer, 2 June 2004

The Kongelig Dansk Yachtclub (http://www.kdy.dk)
was founded 3 July 1866 as Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads. Currently the only
all-Denmark and biggest yacht club, with 2000 members. With its 25th anniversary
King Christian IX granted the club the right to call itself "Kongelig Dansk
Yachtclub and later that same year the current standard was introduced. In this
same year it apparently also received the Royal Privilege. I wonder what the
earlier, 1873, privilege allowed?Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

The state ensign with yellow emblem in the
canton consisting of the letters "D.F.f.R." (Dansk Forening for Rosport) over
two oars in saltire, all golden. The oars are set with the broader side upwards,
but the
Flaggenbuch (1939) drawing
does not show these, instead the have what look like small cross-bars at the
lower ends to signify the way they are held in the rowlocks. The flag was
adopted in 1888 and would presumably still be in use (would it be used only by
the member's row-boats when abroad, or also on clubhouses and similar?).Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004

Introduced by royal resolution of 14 March 1888.
Jose C. Alegria Diaz, 25 January 2000

Just to point out that Dansk
Forening for Rosport, have a web site
.
In the shop
they offer a "Vimpel med den tidligere logo" (burgee/pennant with previous
logo). I don't know what that looks like, though, nor whether they also have one
with the current logo. They also offer "Langtursflag", which I would say
is the flag we show.
That flag, however, I would not call a "yacht flag", which is the topic of the
page where we describe it. The DFfR is, after all, not a yacht club but rather
the Danish rowing federation.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 09 January 2012

The state ensign with yellow emblem in the
canton consisting of the letters "Y.F." and a five-pointed star below them. It
may be noted that Flaggenbuch shows three different designs for the initials "Y.F."
in the three last flags. Actually designs are the same but their size relative
to the flag size and their positioning are different in each of the three flags.
This may be significant and may be reflecting the designs as shown in the
original grants or as used in practice. On the other hand,
Album des Pavillons (2000)
(and probably some other sources) shows the letters the same in all three flags,
probably for "simplicity" sake.Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004

Introduced by royal resolution of 18 May 1889.
Jose C. Alegria Diaz, 25 January 2000

The date we give for the Royal
Resolution that established the flag, 18 May, is actually the date upon which
the club's original application for an ensign defaced with a white cross below
the letters 'YF' was turned down by the Ministry (on the grounds that it was
"precisely the recognition badge of a Vice-Admiral" and asking that they "submit
a different proposal"). I do not have a copy of the club's reply, but the
application for an ensign defaced with a gold star ("below the letters YF"
rather than to the side as we show it) was submitted by the Ministry of the Navy
(signed by N.K. Rayn) on 28 May 1889, and approved (in the name of the King) by
Crown Prince Frederik on 29 May 1889. This authorization was conveyed to the
club, and permission granted to fly the ensign as described, in a letter dated 1
June 1889. I also have a note (on which I unfortunately failed to record a
source) that the star should be tilted 18 degrees towards the hoist?Christopher Southworth, 12 May 2004

"D.K.F." in gold. Royal resolution of 18 July 1934.
Jose C. Alegria Diaz, 25 January 2000

Jan Oscar Engene titles the
ensign as "International sailing canoes of Dansk Kajak-Forbund". That means, if
I am not much mistaken, that the
ensign is granted for use on the canoes in foreign waters (since it is only then
when the Danish canoes would have need of an ensign, anyway). This may not be
such a frequent event, if it has ever happened, but this may still be a valid
flag. Also, as far as I understand the naval regulations there is no reason that
would prohibit a canoe that could use this ensign abroad to fly it in home
waters as well, when they see fit.Željko Heimer 6 June 2004

Founded in 1910, merged with Middelfart Sejlforening 195?-1966. Moved to new
marina 1980. (See Broforeningen Haug.)
http://www.sailtime.dk/middelfart
Middelfart Sejlforening also moved to the new marina. Apparently it has picked a
new burgee at some point (after the split?) as it now has: Violet with in a
white circle the black silhouette of the new Little Baelt Bridge (built shortly
before 1970, I think).Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

White over red with in black an H over an anchor. (Not really a Yachtclub,
but I group it here for geographical reasons.) Haug is the beach on the
south side of the North-Western tip of Fyn, on the North side of which lies the
original city of Middelfart. One gets the impression that for nearly a century
this group of fishermen had a little jetty here for their boats, until
Middelfart expanded over the hill towards the South and suddenly noticed it had
a southward looking coastline here, and developed it in the late 1970-s into a
big marina enveloping the modest work of the fishermen.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

ca. 3:5:3 green, white, blue, tapering, with over all K over B in black at
the hoist and a black fish from 1/6th of the length to 2/3 of the length in the
white.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

I saw two versions of this burgee. The old burgees are white, blue
border all around and 3 fish swimming flyward. New burgees are white, blue
border along the free edges and 3 fish swimming hoistward. Although white, 3
fish swimming dexter, is the shield of Rudkøbing, and the club's site shows a
burgee like the old ones. Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

Sundby has a sailing club, appropriately known locally as Sundby Sejlforening,
which by analogy with other Germanic languages I'd guess means Sundby Sailing
Club. It has a website at
http://www.sundby-sejlforening.dk/ and a triangular flag consisting of a
pentagonal white area at the hoist charged with a red star and the rest being
red.Jorge Candeias, 6 August 2005

Not a yacht club burgee, but also in the sejler leksikon, Traeskibs
Sammenslutningen has a web page at
http://www.traeskib.dk. A white pennant with a black "virgin block"
representing the interests of the heritage of wooden ships, and their
owners/preservers. Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 August 2001

Traeskibs Sammenslutningen (Association for Vintage Wooden Yachts) has a
banner flying in several Danish harbour-areas and marinas. I found a little copy
off it online and reconstructed a better and bigger version of the significant
banner. Just to say, there'll be no copyright problems publishing this graphic
on your website, if you want to. I hereby give flagspot.net full rights to use
my graphic :-)Kenneth Ley Milling, 02 June 2012

On occasion I tried to create an image for this, but failed to create
something I found convincing enough to share. His image is much better, with a
jomfrublok that looks convincingly like the one used by Traeskibs
Sammenslutningen. Though at the time I was unable to give a translation beyond
the literal '"virgin block"', over the decade since then I've learned that in
English this part of the rigging is called a triple deadeye.
The link we have, BTW, is outdated and should now go to
http://www.ts-skib.dk/.Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 03 June 2012